Chapter 624

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng now grip the supreme true inheritance from either side, having closed in on it thanks to Mo Yao’s guidance and Giant Sun’s will being drawn out of the domain. No primeval energy exists here. Without primeval energy for wild Gu worms to draw on, most lose their threat, which is part of why Giant Sun’s will wanted the luck path inheritance pushed into this same domain. ^{ch. 624}

Once a plain orange, the true inheritance now glows in three colors under their hands: silver white from Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s refinement, grey from Fang Yuan, and black from Mo Yao. Silver white leads, grey follows, and black trails last. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is a rank eight Immortal Gu House built from an enormous number of Gu worms, and refining it has already cost both men all their strength. ^{ch. 624}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng urges one more effort as the main portion of Giant Sun’s will roars its return to the tower. The light lump, the size of an adult, holds only a final trace of orange, and losing it would hand the tower fully to Fang Yuan’s side. Giant Sun’s will strikes first. As the original master of the tower and a will an Immortal Venerable left behind, it refines that last trace of orange into gold in an instant, replacing the supreme true inheritance’s own dwindling will. ^{ch. 624}

Fang Yuan calls for a combined strike while there is only a meager trace of Giant Sun’s will left to destroy. Though its main body is vast, only its smallest portion is present here, so the two thought armies pin it down and extinguish the newborn will the true inheritance had only just formed. Neither is a true soul path Gu Master. Fang Yuan only recently began soul path study and Tai Bai Yun Sheng is a total novice, while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s own soul path mastery, though unmatched in life, is represented here only by this leftover will. After a dozen or so breaths of head-on collision, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s combined thoughts suffer disastrous losses. Giant Sun’s will fills less than one percent of the light lump but replenishes every loss at once, while their own greater numbers simply run out of fuel. ^{ch. 624}

Their strongest combined attack shows no effect, and the golden portion of the light lump keeps expanding no matter how hard they resist. Tai Bai Yun Sheng despairs of victory. Mo Yao’s will grieves that three more breaths of time would have been enough to succeed. Fang Yuan refuses to give up, reasoning that even if they cannot claim Eighty-Eight True Yang Building or destroy Giant Sun’s will outright, the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity still raging outside the tower give them one more option. If he cannot have it, no one will. He would rather destroy the tower than let Giant Sun’s will keep it, and Mo Yao, though her voice wavers, accepts this as their best remaining escape. ^{ch. 624}

Giant Sun’s will storms into the secluded domain, cursing the two as scheming ants and vowing them a punishment worse than death. Its surge swallows the flying true inheritances nearby and stops their movement, putting them back under its control. Most still need primeval or immortal essence to work. Since Giant Sun’s will alone cannot supply that essence, and Fang Yuan’s group already controls most of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, those Gu worms stay unusable as long as Giant Sun’s will cannot reach its own immortal essence. ^{ch. 624}

Fang Yuan gives the order to start, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, with no room left to hesitate, forces the tower’s aurora to dim and dissipate as they act together. Giant Sun’s will roars that they have made Eighty-Eight True Yang Building stop operating, calling them shameless, devious scoundrels. The tower had only just formed its own wild will. Fang Yuan’s group, who already control most of it, forcibly halt its operation, and even the strongest fort finds an internal collapse hard to resist, leaving the shell without might against the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity outside. Fang Yuan’s side has nothing to lose by neglecting the tower since they could not keep it anyway, but Giant Sun’s will cannot abandon an inheritance the Immortal Venerable left for his descendants and that this will was charged to protect. ^{ch. 624}

Giant Sun’s will retreats, its golden mass surging back out of the tower like water to form armor around it, forced to endure the tribulation and calamity to keep the weakened tower standing. It still leaves behind a portion of itself, which surges toward Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng like a river, manageable now but only with difficulty. Fang Yuan reluctantly takes flying bear phantom Gu from his pocket. He throws it casually. White light blossoms into a giant flying bear that shields the two of them and blocks the river of will, drawing a curse from Giant Sun’s will. ^{ch. 624}

Flying bear phantom Gu is an Immortal Gu that needs no immortal essence, only a mind to activate it, though it is difficult to refine and difficult to feed, requiring the fresh flesh of the desolate beast flying bear. Fang Yuan feeds it through Hu Immortal blessed land’s treasure yellow heaven. Even so it comes at an enormous price, an army trained for a thousand days to be used in one single fight, and now that fight has arrived. ^{ch. 624}